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This article, written by Margaret Thatcher when she was an MP, was originally published in The Telegraph on January 30 1975. In it, she argues that support for a wide distribution of private property is a central tenet of Conservative values.

She will say: “We should never see social housing as something that need simply be ‘good enough’, nor think that the people who live in it should be grateful for their safety net and expect no better.”

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